Anything for insomnia
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Anyone have any advice for someone suffering with insomnia. All last week I hardly got any sleep. I did manage to catch up a little last night, but I'm back to not being able to sleep again. I should have been asleep at least 2 hours ago. BTW, I gave up caffine a couple of months ago after a bout of insomnia and its more-or-less been okay since then until this last week or so.
My: Blog | Photos "Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in." -- Confucious
well, well you can always learn meditation to catch up on rest.... this is the page I normally recommend to others, simply because of variety, some things don't work on some people and others do: http://www.well.com/user/mick/insomnia/[^] _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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Anyone have any advice for someone suffering with insomnia. All last week I hardly got any sleep. I did manage to catch up a little last night, but I'm back to not being able to sleep again. I should have been asleep at least 2 hours ago. BTW, I gave up caffine a couple of months ago after a bout of insomnia and its more-or-less been okay since then until this last week or so.
My: Blog | Photos "Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in." -- Confucious
Hi Colin, The best cure I have found is early morning exercise. I had it (insomnia) fairly bad for a few years; I wouldn’t b able to sleep for more than 6 or7 hours a week for months at a time. The doctor gave me some pills once but, I didn’t feel rested. I still have an occasional bout but by keeping up the exercise it limit’s the length and severity. Hey don't worry, I can handle it. I took something. I can see things no one else can see. Why are you dressed like that? - Jack Burton
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Anyone have any advice for someone suffering with insomnia. All last week I hardly got any sleep. I did manage to catch up a little last night, but I'm back to not being able to sleep again. I should have been asleep at least 2 hours ago. BTW, I gave up caffine a couple of months ago after a bout of insomnia and its more-or-less been okay since then until this last week or so.
My: Blog | Photos "Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in." -- Confucious
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Hi Colin, The best cure I have found is early morning exercise. I had it (insomnia) fairly bad for a few years; I wouldn’t b able to sleep for more than 6 or7 hours a week for months at a time. The doctor gave me some pills once but, I didn’t feel rested. I still have an occasional bout but by keeping up the exercise it limit’s the length and severity. Hey don't worry, I can handle it. I took something. I can see things no one else can see. Why are you dressed like that? - Jack Burton
I've never had trouble sleeping but then I've never gotten as much as I wanted either. I can say this though. Having started exercising a year ago. My sleep is *much* improved. What do you do before bed? Whatever it is it should be something that is relaxing not engaging. I think tomorrow you should do something to to completely exhaust yourself physically and see what happens when you try to sleep. I'm serious wipe yourself out doing something physical. A well fed, well worked and well maintained body should have no trouble getting rest. - Rex
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Anyone have any advice for someone suffering with insomnia. All last week I hardly got any sleep. I did manage to catch up a little last night, but I'm back to not being able to sleep again. I should have been asleep at least 2 hours ago. BTW, I gave up caffine a couple of months ago after a bout of insomnia and its more-or-less been okay since then until this last week or so.
My: Blog | Photos "Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in." -- Confucious
Got a sleeping problem as well. Only the weeks I got lots of work, I wake up around 3 am at night and start thinking about code, before I realize is 6 am and time to get up. I agree with the people about exercise, when I used to run after work, I got much better sleep. Al
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Anyone have any advice for someone suffering with insomnia. All last week I hardly got any sleep. I did manage to catch up a little last night, but I'm back to not being able to sleep again. I should have been asleep at least 2 hours ago. BTW, I gave up caffine a couple of months ago after a bout of insomnia and its more-or-less been okay since then until this last week or so.
My: Blog | Photos "Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in." -- Confucious
I tried melatonin once. No go. Have you tried Scotch? ;) It'll either get you pissed or put you to sleep. :) I read someone's method about imagining drawing a circle around yourself (I think it was on CP awhile back), but everytime I've tried it the circle turned into various whacky shapes, so I gave up. Give it try though. delete this; * poof! *
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Anyone have any advice for someone suffering with insomnia. All last week I hardly got any sleep. I did manage to catch up a little last night, but I'm back to not being able to sleep again. I should have been asleep at least 2 hours ago. BTW, I gave up caffine a couple of months ago after a bout of insomnia and its more-or-less been okay since then until this last week or so.
My: Blog | Photos "Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in." -- Confucious
It's probably the most basic advice out there, but... Don't go to bed until you *know* you're ready to go to sleep. And if you don't fall asleep within a set amount of time, get up again. Having a set-up where you can sleep in as necessary when you do finally drift off helps too. :)
You must be careful in the forest Broken glass and rusty nails If you're to bring back something for us I have bullets for sale...
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Anyone have any advice for someone suffering with insomnia. All last week I hardly got any sleep. I did manage to catch up a little last night, but I'm back to not being able to sleep again. I should have been asleep at least 2 hours ago. BTW, I gave up caffine a couple of months ago after a bout of insomnia and its more-or-less been okay since then until this last week or so.
My: Blog | Photos "Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in." -- Confucious
Time to start working on that code you have been putting off for months now! It's your conscience telling you something :) xacc.ide-0.1 released! Download and screenshots
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Anyone have any advice for someone suffering with insomnia. All last week I hardly got any sleep. I did manage to catch up a little last night, but I'm back to not being able to sleep again. I should have been asleep at least 2 hours ago. BTW, I gave up caffine a couple of months ago after a bout of insomnia and its more-or-less been okay since then until this last week or so.
My: Blog | Photos "Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in." -- Confucious
Poor guy...I have been suffering from insomnia for years, too. But, I'd like to play some soft and graceful rhythms when i could hardly get sleep, and what was amazing, i really had a good sleep whole night, without any dreams. I hope that will also work for you. A flying,flying,flying little blue bird, i am ...
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Anyone have any advice for someone suffering with insomnia. All last week I hardly got any sleep. I did manage to catch up a little last night, but I'm back to not being able to sleep again. I should have been asleep at least 2 hours ago. BTW, I gave up caffine a couple of months ago after a bout of insomnia and its more-or-less been okay since then until this last week or so.
My: Blog | Photos "Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in." -- Confucious
As others have mentioned, if you cannot sleep, don't lie in bed tossing and turning. Get back up, and try again a little later. The exception is if you can lie in bed peacefully. By that I mean if you are resting comfortably, and not "trying" to sleep. Sometimes I lie in bed when I know I cannot sleep because my back is hurting. Sort of a horizontal meditation. But if you are frustrated from inability to sleep, that is a sure sign to get out of bed. If you do not have allergies, and do not regularly take Benadryl (Diphenhydramine) it is very effective for short term use. We have an expression in the States: "It'll put your dick in the dirt" :-) It can be very effective for short term use. For example, I travel for work occasionally. I find it very difficult to fall asleep in a strange environment, so I always pick up some Benadryl. But of course, Benadryl, like any other drug, is just a quick fix, not a solution. It's not a narcotic, but it does have some of the negative aspects - you build up a tolerance to it quickly, and if you take it every night for any length of time, and then stop taking it, you'll experience "rebound" insomnia for a few days.
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Anyone have any advice for someone suffering with insomnia. All last week I hardly got any sleep. I did manage to catch up a little last night, but I'm back to not being able to sleep again. I should have been asleep at least 2 hours ago. BTW, I gave up caffine a couple of months ago after a bout of insomnia and its more-or-less been okay since then until this last week or so.
My: Blog | Photos "Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in." -- Confucious
Insomnia is a serious problem. I was going to be flippant, and recommend more booze, but that's not appropriate here. It can be a real problem and needs to be treated seriously. As others have mentioned, regular exercise can work wonders; I highly commend it. Another technique that may be useful is meditation. I know it's corny and out of fashion these days, but it works. The method I learned in the '70s was Transcendental Meditation, and our mentor was a ludicrous, fat swami whose name I no longer recall. But the message in what we were taught was that the thoughts that invade our quiet times should be allowed to play a while, then be discarded as irrelevent. They should, in no case, be allowed to take over our thought processes, but there should be no resistance to them either. Ackowledge them, then let them go... My guess would be that you are kept awake by thoughts of things to be done. They haunt you and keep you tossing and turning about how you're going to solve the problems that they present. My advice would be to let them present themselves, then let them fizzle out rather than dwell upon them. It's really not ignoring them, just deferring them to a more appropriate time. If it might help, my 'guru' gave me an audible mantra to recite in my head to focus upon whenever the day-to-day problems threatened to overwhelm me. It's 'Eye-Ying' - a totally meaningless term in any language I'm told. Use it freely, if it helps... "...a photo album is like Life, but flat and stuck to pages." - Shog9
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Anyone have any advice for someone suffering with insomnia. All last week I hardly got any sleep. I did manage to catch up a little last night, but I'm back to not being able to sleep again. I should have been asleep at least 2 hours ago. BTW, I gave up caffine a couple of months ago after a bout of insomnia and its more-or-less been okay since then until this last week or so.
My: Blog | Photos "Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in." -- Confucious
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what works for me is the human reproduction activity. :-) Regardz Colin J Davies The most LinkedIn CPian (that I know of anyhow) :-)
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what works for me is the human reproduction activity. :-) Regardz Colin J Davies The most LinkedIn CPian (that I know of anyhow) :-)
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what works for me is the human reproduction activity. :-) Regardz Colin J Davies The most LinkedIn CPian (that I know of anyhow) :-)
Funny how that helps but the results of successful human reproduction then go and keep you awake. regards, Paul Watson Ireland Colib and ilikecameras. K(arl) wrote: oh, and BTW, CHRISTIAN ISN'T A PARADOX, HE IS A TASMANIAN!
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Anyone have any advice for someone suffering with insomnia. All last week I hardly got any sleep. I did manage to catch up a little last night, but I'm back to not being able to sleep again. I should have been asleep at least 2 hours ago. BTW, I gave up caffine a couple of months ago after a bout of insomnia and its more-or-less been okay since then until this last week or so.
My: Blog | Photos "Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in." -- Confucious
- Exercise. It not only helps sleep, it also immunises you against depression. 2) Learn to let go and switch off. And to talk about your problems with your partner / friends to help quieten the mind. Learn not to take life so seriously. 3) If you cant sleep, lie in bed and meditate. It is just as restful for the body. I often wake at 3-4 in the morning, chewing over problems. Its a pain in the arse, I just lie there till I fall asleep again at 6 oclock. Then, if I get up late and get to work late, I just charge the client for the time I spent thnking about their problem during the night. Nunc est bibendum
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Anyone have any advice for someone suffering with insomnia. All last week I hardly got any sleep. I did manage to catch up a little last night, but I'm back to not being able to sleep again. I should have been asleep at least 2 hours ago. BTW, I gave up caffine a couple of months ago after a bout of insomnia and its more-or-less been okay since then until this last week or so.
My: Blog | Photos "Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in." -- Confucious
When I can't sleep I start working through my neighbors or family, praying for each one.
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Anyone have any advice for someone suffering with insomnia. All last week I hardly got any sleep. I did manage to catch up a little last night, but I'm back to not being able to sleep again. I should have been asleep at least 2 hours ago. BTW, I gave up caffine a couple of months ago after a bout of insomnia and its more-or-less been okay since then until this last week or so.
My: Blog | Photos "Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in." -- Confucious
Excercise and most importantly not worrying about but accepting it and getting up and doing something when it hits. Sometimes you just really don't need that sleep, other times it's all about the mental process in overdrive in which case excercise and taking a meditation class (I took Chi Kung years ago and it still helps me all the time).
"Hello, hello, what's all this shouting, we'll have no trouble here! This is a Local Shop for Local People, there's nothing for you here!" -Edward Tattsyrup
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Anyone have any advice for someone suffering with insomnia. All last week I hardly got any sleep. I did manage to catch up a little last night, but I'm back to not being able to sleep again. I should have been asleep at least 2 hours ago. BTW, I gave up caffine a couple of months ago after a bout of insomnia and its more-or-less been okay since then until this last week or so.
My: Blog | Photos "Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in." -- Confucious
Many times when I cannot sleep I'll go lay down on the couch or in a different bedroom. The change of scenery helps me out quite a bit. However, for those really hard nights try watching CSPAN. It is the most boring TV in the world and it would put anyone to sleep. :laugh: Brett A. Whittington Application Developer
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Colin Angus Mackay wrote:
Well, I've been a happy sington since I broke up with my psycotic ex, so that's unlikely to happen. Unless you are suggesting Pam and her 5 sisters.
Logically, the chemical after response should not be any different. Maybe it's just psychological, or maybe it's the different level of exertion, but Rosie just does not seem to have the same knock out effect that a real partner has. I've never tried it myself, but an inflatable partner would require a certain amount of physical exertion to get her "in the mood", LOL. But I have a strong hunch the difference is Rosie never feels like talking afterwards. LOL
